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  1. I want to see one on Microsoft Causes Internal Family Strife · · Score: -1, Troll

    where Bill is ordered by a judge to be the sys admin for FSF as punishment for monopolisic activities.

  2. No, imagine on One Data Center To Rule Them All · · Score: 5, Funny

    a balrog cluster of them!

  3. Re:Headline on 1,500-Ship Fleet Proposed To Fight Climate Change · · Score: 1

    You're either a troll, or learned about chaos theory from Jurassic Park.

  4. That's impossible on Facebook Blocks Users From Mentioning BugMeNot.com · · Score: 3, Funny

    You can't block someone from saying something like

  5. Re:Still doesnt solve jack on Americans Refusing To Wait For Mainstream EVs · · Score: 1

    I am not sure of this, but it's probably more efficient to use electricity directly, rather than use it to make hydrogen.

  6. Re:Still doesnt solve jack on Americans Refusing To Wait For Mainstream EVs · · Score: 1

    Good point for electric powered cars. Hyrdrogen though probably doesn't make sense though.

  7. Re:Still doesnt solve jack on Americans Refusing To Wait For Mainstream EVs · · Score: 3, Funny

    Exactly. It's like getting a hydrogen powered car. Totally crazy.

  8. The shortage myth on Nearly 50,000 IT Jobs Lost In Past Year · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There has always been a myth, propagated by politicians, media and who knows who else that there is such a shortage. Anyone with a Ph.D. in physics can tell you that this is so.

  9. The bubble is back! on Cuil Proves the Bubble Is Back · · Score: 1, Funny

    But if we are smart, we can still make money. I recommend selling short on Google now.

  10. Re:Send the invading starships now! on Mars Orbiter Finds Evidence For Ancient Rivers, Lakes · · Score: 1

    I am talking about The Cloud Minders .

  11. Send the invading starships now! on Mars Orbiter Finds Evidence For Ancient Rivers, Lakes · · Score: 4, Funny

    Their obviously an underground civilization. Will make excellent troglodytes. Get their corbamite!

  12. It's clearly their last chance on Why Microsoft Is Chasing Yahoo · · Score: 0, Troll

    They goofed wft a lot of internet things. Too little too late though.

  13. Re:Still could be innocent on Hans Reiser Leads Police To Nina's Body · · Score: 5, Funny

    Maybe he was angry with her because she was having an affair. He bought a gun out of anger, but didn't want to kill her. He goes home, to find her with her lover. In a struggle with the lover, the lover the lover wrests the gun from Hans. He's got the gun pointed at Hans, who reveals that his wife has in fact ANOTHER lover. In anger, the lover shoots Nina and flees. Hans has no idea who he was, and Nina dies sadly in his arms. The only way he can avoid blame for the murder (having just legally purchased the gun) is to bury Nina himself. In the end, Hans feels responsible for her death, having driven her away from him due to his obsession with work, and of course, the foolish decision to buy the guy. He sees only too late that he should forgiven her for such a minor human flaw, and if he had, then he would still be with her.

  14. Re:The problem on Avi Rubin Has Some Optimistic Words About E-Voting · · Score: 1

    I am optimistic, since encryption is so strong nowadays. RSA still is unbreakable. Of course there is more to security than encryption, but maybe in this special case those problems can be avoided.

  15. Not really space on New Pictures of White Knight Two and SpaceshipTwo · · Score: 1

    I know the shuttle goes up about 100 miles, which is more than this thing. OK, kinda cool, this thing goes 110 km, but heres the thing. 110 km is high, but look at it compared to the globe. The radius is 4000 miles, so 110 km is 1 percent of that!!! No air, sure. But space ? Come on. Apollo 11 went to space. This is just publicity hogging, and maybe a way to get a boy band member to pay for a ride.

  16. My 2 cents on New Pictures of White Knight Two and SpaceshipTwo · · Score: 1

    OK, kinda cool, but heres the thing. 100 miles is high, but look at it compared to the globe. The radius is 4000 miles, so 100 miles is 2.5 percent of that. No air, sure. But space ? Come on. Apollo 11 went to space. This is just a good place to put satellites.

  17. Re:It may be small... on Only One Quarter of the Planet To Be Online By 2012 · · Score: 1

    Dead on! I think this just shows how oblivious some people are to how poor the world is in general compared to US etc.

  18. Re:Because DARPA is a government mess on Why Are the Best and Brightest Not Flooding DARPA? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    HA! That's what you think. Guess who gets rotated in and out ? People who know each other. Darpa is notorious for being an old boys network. Rotation doesn't fix the problem.

  19. Because DARPA is a government mess on Why Are the Best and Brightest Not Flooding DARPA? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Who wants to work at a crazy bureurcracy like DARPA ? It is an old boys network that is a way to give pork to industry and professors. They've had some successes, but hey that's shotgun science for you. They mostly like to make up crazy ideas that won't work. I worked on a robot project for them for a few years. It was insane. There was no way to do what they wanted - but my university got lots of money!!!

  20. Inside information on Google, Yahoo, and the Elephant In the Room · · Score: 0

    I heard that Yoo-hoo is going to buy them both as soon as they can work the name thing out.

  21. Not a recent development on Wall Street Becoming a Linux Stronghold · · Score: 1

    I have a few friends who became quants around 2000, and they used Linux for the majority of their work.

  22. Re:Prioritize, people! on Previously Uncontacted Amazon Tribe Photographed · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well said !!
    I am going to stop loggin into Amazon too. Why let them have my cc# on file ? Each time I am going to type it in!! Be green!!

  23. Re:Not so novel on Robotic Camera Extension Takes Gigapixel Photos · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Well its a good idea to check before they submit for a patent, since there is prior art.

    Also, the MIT work is well known to anyone in this area. It's not that hard to google some of the keywords and get the MIT page. The CMU people either knew and ignored it, or they simply didn't do what most of the scientists at their institution usually do, which is read the standard conference papers in computer vision, and browse the web (just a little!!). It's not as if the MIT work was published in some obscure place.

  24. Re:Not so novel on Robotic Camera Extension Takes Gigapixel Photos · · Score: 2, Insightful

    How true. Another example of people in computer vision with no ideas who are stealing from people who don't sell themselves well enough. What a sad subject computer vision has become. See Adam Kropps paper with Seth Teller here on spherical mosaics.

  25. Re:Omygosh what baloney on Extracting Meaning From the Structure of Networks · · Score: 0, Troll

    The parent is no troll! Yech this stuff is so silly. What are the applications that aren't "promised" for the future ? I am shocked that such vague nonsense of this is in the journal Nature.